AT&T Hopes to Sell Landline Holdouts on a New Kind of Home Phone

AT&T Inc. hopes to persuade people across the country to break up with their landlines by the end of 2029. To do so, it’s deploying a new weapon that might help: a wireless home phone.

The carrier announced at a recent investor day that it will retire the “vast majority” of its copper networks over the next five years. But it must gain Federal Communications Commission approval to do so and assure the regulator that it’s hooking customers up with adequate replacements.